In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, held responsible ...(展开全部)

In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, held responsible ...(展开全部)

For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the blitzaand the aching guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, aside from the war, until he happened to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake. From that moment, he finds himself ruthlessly hunted, the quar...(展开全部)

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吉尔伯特·阿代尔（1944- ），英国著名作家、影评人、翻译家。曾获授权为经典作品《爱丽丝梦游仙境》和《彼得·潘》撰写续集。他将自己的第一部长篇小说《纯真的圣徒》改编成电影剧本《戏梦巴黎》（又名《梦想家》），由意大利电影大师贝纳尔多·贝托鲁奇拍成电影，为广大影迷、读者所熟悉。他为法国著名先锋作家乔治·佩雷克的代表作《消失》翻译的英文版荣获“斯科特·蒙克里夫法英文学翻译奖”。

哈佛大学法学院教授，哈佛大学伯克曼“互联网与社会”中心主任。美国马萨诸塞州安赫斯特大学学士（美国研究）、哈佛大学J.D.和美国文明史Ph. D.，斯坦福大学行为科学高级研究中心博士后。1982-1984任美国哥伦比亚特区上诉法院法官哈里·T.爱德华兹（Judge Harry T.Edwards）和美国联邦最高法院大法官瑟古德·马歇尔（Justice Thurgood Marshall）的法律助手。自1984年起任教于哈佛大学法学院，专长于知识产权和美国法律史。其研究领域涉及美国法律史、知识产权法、财产法以及网络法。近年来集中致力于网络法，特别是数字音乐的法律问题的研究。著有《数字音乐：问题及可能性》（Digital Music: Problems and Possibilities）、《网络法》（Internet Law，与莱斯格等合作）和《说话算数...(展开全部)

格雷厄姆•格林（Graham Greene，1904—1991） 21次诺贝尔文学奖提名的传奇大师。67年写作生涯，创作超过25部小说，被誉为20世纪大师级作家。1950年，初次获得诺贝尔奖提名。1976年，获美国推理作家协会大师奖。1981年，获耶路撒冷文学奖。1986年，由英女王伊丽莎白二世授予功绩勋章。 格林一生游历于墨西哥、西非、南非、越南、古巴、中东等战乱之地，曾任职于英国军情六处，从事间谍工作，并以此为背景创作小说，关注人灵魂深处的挣扎与救赎、内心的道德和精神斗争，被誉为20世纪人类意识和焦虑的卓越记录者。 至今，每年格林生日期间，在格林出生地——英国赫特福德郡，都会举办为期四天的格雷厄姆•格林国际艺术节，世界各地的格林粉丝齐聚这里参加纪念格林的活动。

Entertainment Industrialised was the first study to compare the emergence and economic development of the film industry in Britain, France and the United States between 1890 and 1940. Gerben Bakker investigates the commercialisation and industrialisation of live entertainment in the nineteenth century and analyses the subsequent arrival of motion pictures, revealing that their ...(展开全部)

In Good Entertainment, Byung-Chul Han examines the notion of entertainment—its contemporary ubiquity, and its philosophical genealogy. Entertainment today, in all its totalizing variety, has an apparently infinite capacity for incorporation: infotainment, edutainment, servotainment, confrontainment. Entertainment is held up as a new paradigm, even a new credo for being—and yet,...(展开全部)